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by nrclark 3y ago
The business model is “get funding, use it up, get more”. It’s the same playbook as self-driving car companies.
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by nrclark 3y ago
I feel like submodules are one of Git's most misunderstood features. I agree that they're really not great for the use-case of "I have to work in a bunch of repos at the same time", but they're also not designed for
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by nrclark 3y ago
You might be overlooking a chemical conditioning element. A smoker gets a dopamine hit every time they take a pull from their cigarette. The smell, the sizzle, and the routine - all become associated with a reward pathway. Nicotine is the c
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by nrclark 3y ago
Cruise is aiming for a robotaxi market, not for consumer vehicles. In their business plan, they own and operate fleets. In that kind of model, it’s possible that they can get away with 4% human control. Another way to put that is that they
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by nrclark 3y ago
No ...It was indeed not a dream. We really did it. The King of All Cosmos has really done it. A sky full of stars ... We broke it. Yes, We were naughty. Completely naughty. So, so very sorry. But just between you and Us, It felt quite good.
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by nrclark 3y ago
Actually the opposite is true. When you gate-check your bags, they are handled carefully and go directly into the plane. Sometimes even into a corner of the passenger area. Parents routinely gate-check strollers, and it’s rare to see one ge
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by nrclark 3y ago
I can't speak for all of them, but "jugaad" maybe isn't a good translation of "meraki". For me, meraki has kind of a "craftsmanship" meaning - you're building something carefully, like a sculptor
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by nrclark 3y ago
do you know how/when you got the injury? What prompted you to get the scan?
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by nrclark 3y ago
> My mental block is a brain injury that went undiagnosed until I was 30. Would you be OK with elaborating on this a bit more?
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by nrclark 3y ago
JSON does have one advantage over XML: it maps cleanly onto primitive types in Python and many other languages. XML attributes don’t really have an unambiguous way to be represented using list and map primitives (other than maybe an “everyt
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by nrclark 3y ago
It's true that Hashicorp's source is still available, but you might not have permission to use it or modify it any more. Even if you can read it legally. Under their new license, Hashicorp can essentially revoke any commercial use
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by nrclark 3y ago
I agree with this 100%. When people talk about hating YAML, I think a lot of the time they really mean "I hate describing pipelines in YAML". And I get that because I feel it too. As a file-format, YAML has pros and cons. But the
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by nrclark 3y ago
That was an interesting read. How do the resulting CPUs compare against their equivalents from other vendors? I know that most FPGA vendors also supply their own soft-core 8- and 32-bit CPUs. One of the things I always think about this proj
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by nrclark 3y ago
Deployment scripts are production code, same as whatever you're deploying. If your CI/CD docker images break, you're just as stuck as if your payload breaks. I totally see the benefit of moving complex shell logic to Python (
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by nrclark 3y ago
I've always liked Python's "batteries-included" approach, and my take on libraries like this is that they introduce extra dependencies into scripts I write. And often, the juice doesn't feel like it's worth the
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by nrclark 3y ago
In the US, our "regular" Cheerios aren't the Multigrain kind. They're minimally sweetened, and mostly made of oat flour. See them here: https://www.cheerios.com/products/original-cheerios
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by nrclark 3y ago
I've played some TTRPGs that have a d6-based system that I really like. The basic idea: you build your dice-pool out of only d6, roll it, and take the best single value that you rolled. Most player rolls use 2-3 dice, and the pool caps
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by nrclark 3y ago
Signs and spoken language feel very different, at least to me. ASL is definitely not "english, but with signs instead of verbal words". In ASL, there are some words where you just spell it out. But most things have their own dedic
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by nrclark 3y ago
nice, so other things you'll probably want to also avoid: - printed books - anything government related - banks
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by nrclark 3y ago
Sort of, yeah. An image is an easy way to deliver an entire software package. A container is the place where your image will run.
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by nrclark 3y ago
This is a big over-simplification, but I think it's a good mental model: Think of a container as a fancy chroot. Imagine that: 1. You have a whole separate Linux installation in some random folder. 2. You ask your OS to launch
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by nrclark 3y ago
Armv7 is fine if you're just running some command-and-control type stuff. In most of the target applications of these chips, you'll typically have a couple of real-time tasks. This will run on a dedicated core, or in kernel space,
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by nrclark 3y ago
> Everyone knows that stuff like functions and dates can’t go over JSON, but there are also subtler things, like the fact that undefined can’t exist as a value in JSON I use `null` for that purpose, and it's been pretty reliable. Wh
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by nrclark 3y ago
It's really common for embedded systems to ship without Bash. I don't include it in the production firmware on any systems that I design.
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by nrclark 3y ago
-eu? Yes. -o pipefail? Maybe not, for two reasons: 1. Pipefail is a bashism, and doesn't exist on Ubuntu's /bin/sh or Busybox /bin/sh (common on embedded Linux systems) 2. Pipefail invalidates some common shell
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by nrclark 3y ago
It's unfortunate that both of those would need to be done by congressmen, and congressmen are the ones benefiting from our current situation.
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by nrclark 3y ago
If you do, I'd love to hear a follow-up on how it goes. I keep meaning to try that out myself. If you remember later, shoot me an email at nicholas-replace-with-dot-clark at gmaildotcom
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by nrclark 3y ago
Yocto does have other benefits than just resource usage. It's also good if you want to customize your compiler options, or if you operate in a safety-critical context where you might need to trace the origins of your compiled binaries.
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by nrclark 3y ago
That's a solid approach. Just make sure $JOB's legal dept is OK with Debian's license requirements (you have to tell customers how to modify your chroot), and with potential traceability/software supply-chain concerns.
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by nrclark 3y ago
That's a good point. You don't need sstate-cache, but you do need downloads/ if you want to protect yourself from 3rd party sources going offline. I'd recommend archiving that folder alongside any released versions.

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